Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

Let there be snark.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

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  1. 1.

    ruemara

    This clip is so cute it hurts. If I didn’t have a mandate to focus on the science of animals, i’d have shared this already.

  5. 5.

    Mnemosyne

    Saw that on Facebook. Dangerously cute.

    Also, bragging for the nighttime crowd: Daveed Diggs signed my copy of the Hamiltome! One of my friends works at a recording studio and he was doing some recording there, so I gave my copy of the book to her husband to give to her, and she emailed a photo of the signed book since I won’t get it back until tomorrow.

    She said he was an absolute sweetheart and she’s half in love with him herself now, so I guess we’re gonna have to rumble to see who gets him. ;-)

  6. 6.

    Eric U.

    ok, that was really cute, but I think it ends at about the point that the cat gets its claws out.

  8. 8.

    Suzanne

    Oh God DAMN that is adorable.

    Off topic: has anyone been listening to the “Presidential” podcast from the Washington Post? I am loving it.

  11. 11.

    Miss Bianca

    Too late…Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhh!

    Squee-o-meter just went into the red and exploded. Cuteness casualties.

    @Mnemosyne: Yay!!

  12. 12.

    Mnemosyne

    @Miss Bianca:

    One of her other friends commented, “Hashtag dying of jealousy!”

    I would be tempted to sleep with the book under my pillow tomorrow night, but G might get a little suspicious. It’s not a small book.

  13. 13.

    Miss Bianca

    @Mnemosyne: Just tell him, “hey, some people sleep with GUNS under their pillows…”

    (“Honey…honey? Where are you going…”)

  14. 14.

    Mnemosyne

    @Miss Bianca:

    Also, too, my other brag is that I got to hear Tessa Dare speak about making your subgenre your own, and she had some interesting advice: if you have any supernatural elements in your book, make sure that’s front and center when you talk/write about it, because readers get PISSED if the supernatural turns up in a book where they didn’t expect it and will give you bad reviews.

  16. 16.

    Miss Bianca

    @Mnemosyne: Oh – what if you kind of bring it in slowly? Like, it’s *mentioned* in the first hundred pages or so, but you don’t actually “see” any supe action yet?

    Tessa Dare, eh? My mercy me!

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne

    @Miss Bianca:

    She’s a local writer, and my chapter of the RWA brought her in to speak. She’s really nice — I had also met her at the Festival of Books, so I re-introduced myself to her and told that she had suggested I join the RWA if I wanted to write a book, and here I was. She seemed to like hearing that.

    You don’t necessarily have to give the whole plot away, but you definitely have to market it as a supernatural romance so people know that there’s probably going to be magic in there. Romance readers who don’t like supernatural stories really don’t like them. Apparently Lisa Kleypas got a lot of bad feedback when she put a ghost into Mine Until Midnight since that was a universe where there had never even been a hint of the supernatural up until then.

    The other interesting thing she said was that you should have two “normal” tropes and then add your own twist to a third trope. So, for example, in A Week to Be Wicked, she has a scandalous lord vs. a bluestocking (trope 1) who go on a road trip together (trope 2), but then she throws in that the bluestocking is a serious paleontologist before that even existed (twist!).

  18. 18.

    Miss Bianca

    @Mnemosyne: Well, that will be a fun exercise – “can you identify the ‘tropes and twists’ in your own story?”

    ETA: Because I never really work with an outline, that could be a challenge!

  19. 19.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    It seems that Adam was right about being bigfooted…
    (2 minutes, gota be a record).

    Google saved me from asking Adam a question. Part of today’s adventure in Hollywood included a visit to a cemetery(Hollywood Forever, north of Paramount) a portion of which is Jewish. I noticed the many of the grave markers had pebbles on them.

  20. 20.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Mnemosyne: Interesting. I try to put it on the first page, personally.

    In stuff I read, often times you know it’s going to be supernatural, but it creeps in. The reader knows that something’s going to happen but all of the characters don’t.

  21. 21.

    Mnemosyne

    @Miss Bianca:

    It was an interesting way to look at it. It’s not necessarily a way to write the story, more a way to figure out your audience and how to market it to them. There was another writer at the meeting whose book I may buy because although I’m not a huge fan of erotic romance, she wrote it based on Greek/Roman myths, with the characters being the actual gods and goddesses. I don’t know if it’s any good, but it’s only $2.99 on Kindle, so what the hell.

  25. 25.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    @Mnemosyne: I got an Amazon comment that said that there was too much hockey in Becoming Phoebe.

    C’mon, the girl should be able to think outside of hockey.

    Well, there is the masters in computer science that she gets along the way. And I only put a hockey net on the damned cover.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    @Miss Bianca:

    I’m sure you know what “erotic romance” is, but for the uninitiated, it’s basically hardcore erotica with a happy ending (no, not that kind!) Buyer beware.

    @Major Major Major Major:

    You have to know what the tropes are so you can play with them. Otherwise, you just end up with cliches you didn’t realize were cliches.

  28. 28.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    @Mnemosyne: I know. Before I published, I was looking around to see if there were similar books already out there, and a ran across the hockey romance genre. I quickly decided they weren’t really similar to mine.

    Edit: I also overheard a couple of the Gopher players discussing the genre at one point. They weren’t especially amused by it.

  36. 36.

    MomSense

    Cutest thing I’ve seen in a long time. I may have to bookmark this to get me through this election season. Please, please, please somebody adopt them as a pair.

  38. 38.

    nutella

    So Huffington Post has its problems but I’d like to call out something it’s doing right: This article about Trump’s campaign expenses end with an editor’s note saying “Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.”

    Good work, Huffington editor!

  39. 39.

    cat copeland

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Rule # 1 on human behavior:
    Don’t tell humans NOT to look at sumin’ or NOT to try sumin’. Unless you are going for reverse psychology.
    I LOOKED!!!!
    I hope when my times comes it will because I OD’d on animal videos!! Over & Out!!!!!

  40. 40.

    Althea the Bootstrapwoman

    Actually, that made me very sad. Why wouldn’t someone help kitty? Was she so lonely that she felt compelled to risk her little life to go visit puppy?

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